About Elizabeth

Elizabeth Byler Younts writes women's fiction for Harper Collins/Thomas Nelson. She is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers. She gained a worldwide audience through her first book Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl and is a RITA nominated writer. She is also the author of The Promise of Sunrise series. She has consulted on Amish lifestyle and the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect for two award-winning television shows. Elizabeth lives in Central Pennsylvania with her husband, two daughters, and a cockapoo named Fable.

UPCOMING RELEASEJUNE 2018

THE SOLACE OF WATER

In The Solace of Water, Elizabeth Byler Younts tells the story of two women, one white and one black, in racially charged 1957, who fight personal battles of freedom and form a friendship that neither expected.

After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher's wife named Delilah Evans moves with her family from Alabama to Pennsylvania, for a fresh start. The last thing she could have imagined was becoming friends with Emma Mullet, a reclusive Amish woman.

Emma is fighting personal battles of her own and feels estranged from her small Amish community. The secrets that have kept her isolated from her own community serve to unite her in an unlikely friendship with Delilah.

Sparrow, Delilah's eldest daughter, knows she is responsible for the death of her little brother. When tensions at home become unbearable, she seeks solace at Emma's house, becoming the surrogate daughter Emma has always wanted. Sparrow, however, is hiding secrets of her own, secrets that could sever all ties to her safe refuge.

Life for these three gets harder when church and social issues confront them, causing rifts within their three distinct communities: whites, blacks, and Amish. When their carefully protected secrets come to light, there seems to be little hope for friendship, restoration, or even forgiveness. But when the unthinkable happens, Delilah and Emma find themselves looking into the mirror of their own self-deceptions and are forced to make a choice that will set them off to the future.

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Like a sweet bird song, Elizabeth Byler Younts’ prose sings in this fulfilling and honest novel. A story to be read again and again for its wit, insight, and poignancy; this story truly satisfies the soul.

— Kelly Long, bestselling author

BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW

SEASONS: A REAL STORY OF AN AMISH GIRL

EXCERPT: "When considering my life I am struck by my season of spring. It's a journey of love lost and found, heartbreak, fears, and even dreams come true. I am not sure that in my later seasons I would feel so deeply, love so strongly, and strive with such desperation if it weren't for what I experienced as a young girl in the bittersweet spring of my life. Here are my memories, how I remember the season of my girlhood. Welcome to spring."

PROMISE TO RETURN (PROMISE OF SUNRISE, BOOK 1)

When World War II breaks out, Miriam Coblentz’s peaceful Amish world is turned upside down. Two worlds collide in this unforgettable debut novel, providing a fasci­nating and rare look into Amish culture during World War II. While Henry is battling enemies across the ocean, Miriam struggles between her devotion to Henry and her love of the Amish way of life.

PROMISE TO CHERISH (PROMISE OF SUNRISE, BOOK 2)

As World War II draws to a close, nurse Christine falls in love with roguish Amish boy Eli and must choose between a new, uncertain life in the Amish faith or face the judgment of a conservative postwar American society for her past mistakes.

PROMISE TO KEEP (The Promise of Sunrise, Book 3)

World War II Marine Joe Garrison returns home from war longing to be a father to his deaf daughter, Daisy, only to find that she is attached to Esther Detweiler, the Amish woman who has raised her since his wife’s death in this touching historical romance.

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